I also am looking for a good Greek prosody book. My Allen & Greenough has prosody in the back, but the H&Q doesn't seem to cover it. I'm planning on writing something for my school's literature magazine in the spring. Any good book/online reference recommendations?

Thanks!,
Titus Marius Crispus

[edit]Oh, and, I don't really know anything about verbs or adjectives yet, but how is the grammar in [face=SPIonic]pa=j Graiko\s e)sti/[/face]?[/edit]

Titus Marius Crispus wrote:I also am looking for a good Greek prosody book. My Allen & Greenough has prosody in the back, but the H&Q doesn't seem to cover it. I'm planning on writing something for my school's literature magazine in the spring. Any good book/online reference recommendations?

Eeek! Don't use the prosody from any of those old grammars! They were all desperate to make Greek poetry scan like a Waltz or a March, and all sorts of violence was done to make the complex a great deal more complex.

For books, M.L. West has an introduction to Greek meter (er, metre) that seems to be available from time to time. Raven's introduction is also solid.

If I may make bold to offer my own work, the Introduction to Greek Meter is a good start. I'm in the process of turning that into a nice PDF file, and am refining and updating as I go. There used to be a beautiful site, "The Enchiridion of Greek Metrics" but it has gone the way of all flesh.

[edit]Oh, and, I don't really know anything about verbs or adjectives yet, but how is the grammar in [face=SPIonic]pa=j Graiko\s e)sti/[/face]?[/edit]

Well, the vocabulary choice is a bit spotty. What are you trying to say? To the Greeks the Graeci were very specific Greeks, not all of them.

Number error! Very common in beginners (and not so beginners). You have "the god educates the men."

Everything else looks fine to me, though in 3 I might suggest the possibility of moving [face=spionic]e)k th=j nh/sou[/face] to right after [face=spionic]dw=ron[/face], but only because that's how I interpret the English.